It endures off the shelves, too: In 2013 Vanity Fair launched a Snob’s Dictionary video series, and in 2017 periodicals as far away as The National, in Abu Dhabi, were still quoting it.

LOOKER
In 2005 I launched a blog, Looker, which I wrote until 2012. It was a movie-obsessed accumulation of personal reminiscences, in-the-field observations, dogged reporting, and goofy humor. Readers loved it:

“An ever-illuminating read whose one flaw is that it doesn’t get updated enough”! —The Guardian

FLÂNEUR
In 2000 I founded an online literary magazine, Flâneur, and edited it until 2004. It comprised essays, stories, poems, and artwork devoted to “the celebration of urban life, the sanctification of the stroll,” as our Flanifesto declared. The New Yorker promoted our readings in Brooklyn and Manhattan and the New York Times said we offered “a loafer’s view of the naked city, with all its quirks and mundane beauty.” Among our contributors: